Program: 12 Weeks (Afternoon)

Location: 64 Saltsman Drive • Cambridge, ON  • N3H 4R7 in the CLAC Training Facility

The program will give the necessary skills to multi skilled trades people to prepare, excavate, backfill, and clean up a worksite. This program will provide in-school training for the Construction Craft Worker trade. Students will learn safe practices and procedures and gain blueprint reading and worksite communication skills. They will learn procedures for handling equipment and tools safely and for handling and distributing construction materials on site. They will also learn methods and procedures for assembling and dismantling scaffolding, ramps, catwalks, formwork and barricades at construction sites to industry standards of practice and occupational health and safety standards.

Students will learn to demonstrate effective worksite communication skills and to apply basic principles of mathematics to solve trade-related problems. Students will receive theory instruction together with the safety and hands-on training methodology taught by highly trained instructors in the following subjects:

Safety: Students learn to interpret the safety requirements from the Occupational Health and Safety Act for the construction craft worker trade. The program will teach students to identify unsafe work areas and apply essential safety procedures, such as First Aid. Students will learn to install permanent and temporary barriers on worksites and how to construct and disassemble forming systems according to specifications and occupational health and safety standards.

Construction Procedures: Students will gain knowledge of the proper methods and procedures necessary to level and protect the surface of concrete materials, as well as the correct procedures for erecting, dismantling and storing scaffolding and installing tie-ins. Students will learn effective rigging and hoisting procedures to maintain control of loads and move materials around a worksite. Students will be trained in the proper use of hand and power tools for worksites. The program will teach students how to apply safe and environmentally sound practices to the placement and use of stationary equipment, pumps, and hoses.

Building Codes: Students will be able to interpret blueprint drawings and layouts. The program will allow students to gain experience estimating material quantities from various types of plans and specifications.

Employability Skills Include: Resume Writing, Interview Skill Training, Customer Service Training, Communications Skills Training and Timesheet Skills Training.

Successful candidates who complete the Construction Craft Worker Pre-Apprenticeship Program will acquire the skills to succeed in the following areas of the industry: 

• Estimating
• Product Distribution
• Manufacturing (Sales)
• Management / Supervisor
• Asphalt Spreader
• Bricklayer Helper
• Carpenter Helper
• Concrete Mixer Helper
• Construction Labourer
• Demolition Worker
• Driller Helper – Surface Mining
• Drywall Sander
• Flagman/woman
• Labourer, Concrete Paving
• Labourer, Excavation
• Pipeline Mandrel Operator
• Plumber Helper
• Roofer Helper
• Stabber – Pipeline Construction